A year never goes by without someone inventing something hilariously useless. Many of these travesties tried to reinvent the wheel but were plagued by huge dollops of fail. And when companies get desperate, horrendous products hit the mass market and produce a true comedy of errors.

Over the next 10 pages, we'll take you on a guided tour of our picks of the bunch--not a definitive guide to technological idiocy. On each page is a piece of technology replete with oodles of fail. There's no excuse any more for wasting millions of dollars of development on products so offensively useless, so fundamentally unlikable, it's painful to even acknowledge their existence.

We start our journey with an electric car that sucked so badly it was deemed too dangerous to allow on roads. Click here for more.